Nicolae Minovici

Minovici (center) performing an autopsy, 1900. To his left (in dark suit, perched) is anatomist Francisc Rainer, then an intern. Nicolae S. Minovici (23 October 1868 – 26 June 1941) was a Romanian forensic scientist and criminologist who served as head of his country's anthropometric service. He is known for his studies investigating connections between tattooing and criminal behaviour,

He was the founder of the Legal Medicine Association of Romania and the publisher of the Romanian journal of Legal Medicine. He also served as mayor of Băneasa. which he published next year in Archive des Sciences Médicales. He also took additional courses in psychiatry and pathological anatomy. Minovici performed twelve hanging experiments involving himself as the subject.

In the initial experiments the knot was not constricting and his feet were raised two metres above ground. and a collection of Romanian folk art, to his country. His home in the Băneasa district of Bucharest is now an ethnological museum, called the Nicolae Minovici Folk Art Museum; the street next to it also bears his name.